The "I Ching" : a biography / Richard J. Smith.
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- 9781400841622
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- 9781283456999
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299.51 The Wiley-Blackwell companion to Chinese religions / | 299.51 LEGG The religions of China : | 299.512 Confucianism / | 299.51282 The "I Ching" : | 299.514 Introducing Daoism / | 299.514 Daoism : | 299.6 African traditional religion / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; The Hexagrams; Chronology of Chinese Dynasties; Preliminary Remarks and Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: The Domestic Evolution of the Yijing; CHAPTER 1 Genesis of the Changes; CHAPTER 2 The Making of a Classic; CHAPTER 3 Interpreting the Changes; PART TWO: The Transnational Travels of the Yijing; CHAPTER 4 The Changes in East Asia; CHAPTER 5 The Westward Travels of the Changes; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z.
The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of various cultures throughout East Asia. Jesuit missionaries brought knowledge of the I Ching to Europe in the seventeenth century, and the American counterculture embraced it in the 1960s. Here Richard Smith tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became on.
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